Archive for the ‘Ottawa’ Category
Friday, September 12th, 2008
I have signed up to volunteer for Jen Hunter with her campaign for Ottawa Centre in the up-coming federal election. I'm blogging about it to help the search engines find her site and spread the word; additionally, I hope to help with some other on-line efforts also.
For sure, the social ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
The Flex Camp Ottawa event at Adobe last Thursday was an experience to remember: well-organized, great speakers and interesting information.
While I'm no Flex developer, I was interested to see those who are in the city. Having the top two Flash firms (Fuel Industries & Teknision) in Ottawa as presenters tipped ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
It was another well-attended night at the latest Demo Camp: DemoCampOttawa9.
The presenters tonight were:
SIMtone
GPU Core - Graphics processor core implemented on Xilinx FPGA
OurAirports
picsphere
Stockify
Protecode
It was held at the hip Velvet Room, 62 1/2 York Street in the Market, and not at the Clock Tower Brew Pub as per usual in the ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Rick Segal of JLA Ventures was in town today, along with Scott Pelton of GrowthWorks Capital, for the Ottawa VC Roundtable session. Overall, it was a very informative session. The mystery surrounding why they pick certain companies to invest in has been lifted for me. Rick is ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Bob Reichert from the NRC (National Research Council) announced in DemoCamp Ottawa 8 that, if your startup is seeking research grants and/or general questions regarding IRAP, you can contact him at 613.993.7890 or Bob.Reichert at nrc.gc.ca.
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
These companies has announced at DemoCamp Ottawa 8 on Monday that they are looking for staff, software developers and others, to join their team:
Thornley Fallis / 76 Design
Real Decoy
FavQuest (part-time, sweat-equity? for now)
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The latest DemoCamp a couple of nights ago was interesting. A few observations:
no dominant technology platform used across the board (asp.net, java , php, etc.)
product maturity ranges from fairly polished commercial (DevShop) to various stages of "beta" (FavQuest, FriendsRoll)
a professional emcee (David Schellenberg of LiVE 88.5) really helps makes ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
The Ottawa Business Journal has posted an article on the latest status of some Ottawa startups:
Startup Checkup 2007
The tech companies mentioned in the article:
Avoca Semiconductor, voice-interface solutions, hardware & software
Distil Interactive, web education and training, software
Gridpoint Systems, carrier ethernet solutions, hardware
ImaSight, digital radiography solutions, hardware
Jaded Pixel, ecommerce solution, software
Kakiloc (closed), ...
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